Lyra_Lycan

I hear you. I’ve taken to writing myself guides on how to set up things based on what worked for me, in case I need to again, purely because of how complicated each one is. Might write blogs later aha

Yeah, the way things at going I feel like I should protect myself further with a VPN, but it does break some of my services’ access. Just another hurdle in the track to net independence that will be overcome! Heaven knows we’ve overcome many to get where we each are.

Rip. I use AgentDVR for security and they do the same thing, but at least with camera footage you don’t want that to be external

I use Emby and it’s flawless, might be worth swimming upstream?

Self-hosting be like ^^

I think I had issues similar to that. Perhaps the PiHole is running a conflicting DHCP server? I have my own set of weird issues… Bad connectivity so I need a WiFi range extender, but it’s not a true extender and has its own IP address, acting as a router sometimes and not forwarding DNS queries to the main router… That, a lack of NAT loopback functionality, a lack of changeable DNS settings and the AdGuard Home apparently taking precedent in that side of the house, and I have a cocktail of connection issue bs lol. The main router can DNS perfectly fine, but if I’m connected to the extender I have to add DNS rewrites to AGH… which works for most services…

Yes! This.

I have one machine for network sharing storage and thus a user for login and r/w powers. The same storage is used by other machines to save the files, and so each autonomous user for CCTV and qBitTorrent needed to have the same UID as the Samba login, as well as qBittorrent share the UID with Emby, so each program had rw permissions and those containers had to be privileged (otherwise the permissions under ls -l would be ‘nobody nogroup’).

For inspiration, here’s my list of services:

Here is the overhead for everything. CPU is an i3 6100 and RAM is 2133MHz:

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Quick note about my setup, some things threw a permissions hissy fit when in separate containers, so Media actually has Emby, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and two instances of qBittorrent. A few of my containers do have supplementary programs.

An LXC is isolated, system-wise, by default (unprivileged) and has very low resource requirements.

• Storage also expands when needed, i.e. you can say it can have 40GB but it’ll only use as much as needed and nothing bad will happen if your allocated storage is higher than your actual storage… Until the total usage approaches 100%. So there’s some flexibility. With a VM the storage is definite.
• Usually a Debian 12 container image takes up ~1.5GB.
• LXCs are perfectly good for most use cases. VMs, for me, only come in when necessary, when the desired program has more needs like root privileges, in which case a VM is much safer than giving an LXC access to the Proxmox system. Or when the program is a full OS, in the case of Home Assistant.

Separating each service ensures that if something breaks, there are zero collateral casualties.

For inspiration, here’s my list of services:

Remember, if you’re going to consume Pride merch, buy from places like Humble Bundle that actually put the money towards LGBTQ+ organisations. Paying a random conglomerate twice the normal price for an item, especially if you’re queer or an ally, makes little sense and only incentivises businesses to boost their profits from the queer and ally community.

Indeed I did, I removed my speculative comments…

I put my chips (£100) on Emby, a Jellyfin fork. I don’t know much about specifics, but I believe Emby was borne out of classic workplace toxicity, in that Jellyfin was becoming too corporate so a couple devs forked off to keep it clean.

I haven’t regretted my purchase. I can’t sell anyone on much either, because Emby does all the same as other services, except they’ve kept adding features while Plex kept doing the Google thing and taking them away. CPU transcoding is free I believe, as is remote streaming up to 10 devices for each user… Idk I paid pretty early on, but lifetime license is where it’s at. Subscriptions just open your asshole for greedy CEOs to fuck you